The History Place - Hitler Youth(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)

In Catholic sections of Germany, high rankingNazis could still be found at Sunday mass along with groups of Hitler Youth in uniform and Hitler Youths serving at the altar wearing their uniforms beneath altar boy robes.

The Nazis capitalized on the natural enthusiasm of young people, their craving for action and desire for peer approval, hoping, ultimately, each young person would come to regard his or her HJ or BDM unit as a home away from home, or perhaps as their real home.

Nazi scientists, educated before Hitler, would later complain they were partially hindered in developing new super weapons by the recruitment of young graduates from the elite Nazi schools.

These various marks are called insignia and usually consist of two types: the metal insignia which you will wear on the lapel of your coat, and the colored hat cord which you will wear on your service hat.

To assist you in becoming quickly familiar with the various types of insignia and so that you can tell at a glance to which arm or service a soldier may belong, they are shown in figure 1.

The insignia of grade worn by all officers on each shoulder loop of the coat, overcoat, or olive-drab shirt when worn without the coat, are shown in figure 4.

The new "party" declared that it "stood on guard of the October conquests"; it put forth the demand, "all power to the soviets and not to the party"; it sharply assailed the party intellectuals, and it demanded the abolition of privileges and a more just distribution of rations.

The tasks of that party were to include the struggle against the exploitation of the proletariat and for democracy as opposed to the arbitrary rule of the administration.

The plebeian elements of the party were crushed by the joint efforts of the ruling strata, but no sooner was the danger from that direction obviated than the Communist patricians began their internecine strife-a naked, shameless struggle for power in the party and in the country.

The rank flag of the Leader (Förer, the Flaggenbuch uses the term Hirdmarineführer) of the Naval Hird was a rectangular blue flag set with the Naval Hird emblem in the centre and a white five-pointed star in the canton.

The rank flag of the Naval Hird District Leader was in the shape of a broad pennant with a blue field, 55:80 cm overall and with the swallowtail 25 cm both high and wide [1].

According to the NS yearbook [4], and also Littlejohn [6], the ranks of the Naval Hird were identical to that of the Unghirden (Youth Hird).

Nazi past lingers in Munich: the birthplace and stronghold of the National Socialist party.

It begins simply: "Jan Makkreel spent his teen years in the Netherlands during the Nazi invasion and occupation of WWII." A couple of pages later he drops a bomb: "I was labeled a teenage Nazi collaborator." His uncle joined the Waffen SS, the combat arm of Adolf Hitler'sNaziparty, to fight the Russians.

Many conservatives insist that the Nazis were an example of a 'socialist' government as part of their effort to discredit socialism and leftist policies in general.

The red and yellow ribbon is of a medal that recognizes service in support of Francisco Franco's Nationalist rebels during the Spanish Civil War, and the diamond-shaped pin beneath the ribbons is an Albanian award for participation in the Italian effort against Greece and Yugoslavia in 1940-41.

His gold-bullion cap badge features the symbol of the Fascist Party, the "fasces" -- a sheaf of birch or elm rods bound together with a battle-axe -- which hails from the time of the Roman Empire and signifies the State's authority to impose discipline, either by birching or decapitation.

His rank is shown by the braid on his cuffs, here in a simplified yellow-thread version for battle dress.

For 2.5 Reichsmarks, Heck sold the rights of the Sig Runes to the SS and the runes were quickly adopted as the insignia of the Schutzstaffel and became one of the most commonly used forms of SS unit insignia.

The similarity to the SS insignia was an indication that the Hitler Youth was considered by many to be a central recruiting area for membership in the SS.

The Nazis eliminated the red-fl-gold in 1933 but continued to use the fl-white-red (without the canton) as national and commerce flag until Sept. 15, 1935, when the more familiar Nazi flag was adopted uniformly (the war flag being a red field, fl cross with swastika in the middle and Iron Cross in dexter chief.

While many of these troops were intended to have insignia peculiar to their organization, it has not been possible in practice to manufacture and issue the necessary uniforms and insignia.

The insignia for these forces may be grouped into three sets: those for the Eastern Legions (Ostlegionen), those for the Russian and Ukranian Armies of Liberation (with rankinsignia after the Russian style), and those for Cossack units.

While the collar insignia for lower ranks resemble those of the Army, the collar patch rectangle is surrounded by a silver cord.

Thus were the SA members the ideology bearers of the NaziParty-the soldiers of an idea-to use the expression employed by the Nazi writers.

In the early stages of the Nazi movement, the employment of the SA as the propagandist instrument of the Party, involved and was combined with the exercise of physical violence and brutality.

And so, in the early days of the Nazi movement, so that the Nazis might better spread their fanatical philosophies, the SA was employed as a terroristic group, in order to gain for the Nazis possession and control of the streets.

www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/12-19-45.htm (20576 words)

Socialism = NAZI (Hitler was a socialist)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)

The Nazis were even to the Left of FDR, with whom they considered themselves to be in a form of competition to get to the New Order first.

In Nazi Germany, private capitalist individuals owned the means of production, and they in turn were frequently controlled by the Naziparty and state.

Labeling of the Nazis as Far Right Wing and the belief that this is so, accounts for the Jewish proclivity towards liberalism and the Left.

Close-up of insignia are prominent and often the accompanying uniform is displayed with the helmet.

As official documents of Nazi Germany, the stamps, postcards, and even postmarks used during the time provide the reader with an explicit pictures of the types of propaganda messages every German was expected to see.

The assault troops ranked among the elite units of the Austro-Hungarian army and permanently influenced the image of the soldier in the static and trench warfare of the First World War.

But when the swastika was adopted by Adolph Hitler and his Naziparty in Germany during the late 1930's, it became an odious symbol and was abandoned as the insignia of the 45th Infantry Division.

While members of the 45th took off their swastikas and wore no insignia for many months, the Adjutants General and Commanders of units of the 45th Infantry Division in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona called on guardsmen and citizens of all four States to suggest designs for a new insignia.

It was learned that the four sides of the square red background represented the four States in which units of the 45th Division were located, the red and yellow colors were indicative of the Spanish heritage of the area, and the swastika had been selected as a typical American Indian symbol.

In the city of Tver, the youth committee of the municipal government partially finances activities of the local RNE branch, for it considers that "some activities of this organization are very beneficial for the young generation".

Moscow Nazis do not yet patrol the streets, but they do guard the railway depot Ramenskoye, control the boating safety services in Sosnovy Bor and Kuzminky, and the Terletsky Park, where their headquarters are located.

For a Nazi, the case is whether you are Jewish, in perfect mental health, your skin, color and some other things, but, what is the problem with being a Jew, with being Black, being mentally ill? The most damage here is being done by the haters, not the hated as a Nazi would say.

On March 8th, 1922, Hitler, in his own newspaper, the "Volkische Beobachter", announced the establishment of the Jugendbund der NSDAP (Youth League of the NaziParty), later known as the Jungsturm Adolf Hitler (Youth Shock Troop Adolf Hitler).

This new Nazi organization, culminating into the HJ was under the leadership of Kurt Griper, of the Plauen group.

A secondary purpose was the encouragement of relatively unorganized gangs of rebellious youngsters in their attacks on the Hitler Youth (Hitler Jugend) and the League of German Girls (BDM).

Hundreds of items of clothing, equipment and insignia are illustrated by reenactment photos of the famous 'leathernecks' in the form of large format color plates.

Along with 30 pages of four-color artwork, to include formation insignia, maps and all of the major vehicles used by the Germans, are dozens of tables illustrating orders of battle for both sides as well as vehicle counts and losses for the Germans.

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The New American - Racism in the Ranks - January 22, 1996(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)

Accordingly, while the near-fatal beating of a white soldier by ten fl soldiers was dismissed as an "isolated incident," the slaying of two fl civilians by white soldiers was depicted as a symptom of pervasive "racism" in the U.S. military.

Whether or not Burmeister ever displayed a Nazi flag over his barracks bed, the image became the symbolic touchstone of the tragedy.

At least one of the three soldiers held white supremacist views and was known to display a Nazi flag over his barracks bed....

Examining the more than one-hundred and twenty-five SS Foot Regiments in the General SS, the names and ranks of the hundreds of commaners, as well as details of unit location changes, popular and honor titles as well as other data for each are within a separate chapter.